How do E-patients connect online? A study of social support roles in health social networking

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7812 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 193-200

  Chuang, Katherine Y ^a   Yang, Christopher C ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

blockmodeling; computer mediated communication; health informatics; social media; social network analysis; social support

Indexed keywords

BLOCKMODELING; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; HEALTH INFORMATICS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

COMMUNICATION;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84874797509     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37210-0_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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